Suleman Rahim Khan, 21, a farmer’s son from Chhoti Betawad in Maharashtra’s Jamner taluka, was abducted in broad daylight, brutally beaten across multiple locations, and dumped lifeless outside his home, as his parents and sister were assaulted while trying to save him, Maktoob reported.
9–15 men first confronted Suleman—allegedly while he was with a 17-year-old girl from another community—at a café near the local police station. He was forced into a vehicle, taken to several locations, and repeatedly attacked before being brought back to his village for the final assault. Police told UNI that the attackers then chased him to Chhoti Betawad, where they again assaulted him.
Suleman, who had recently completed Class 12 and was preparing for police recruitment, had gone to Jamner that morning to submit his application. Instead of being taken to a hospital after the attack, his body was dumped at his doorstep. Police said he suffered fatal internal injuries from sticks, iron rods, and bare-handed blows. An in-camera post-mortem was conducted under police guard at the family’s request.
“There was not a single inch on my son’s body without wounds,” his father Rahim Khan told Maktoob. “They battered him, then beat my wife, daughter, and me when we tried to save him. Suleman was my only son. I will not rest until the culprits face the harshest punishment.”
The killing has heightened communal tensions in Jamner, drawing parallels with the Beed lynching earlier this year. Relatives and community leaders are demanding charges under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA), calling it a “textbook case of gang violence.”
Former AIMIM MP Imtiaz Jaleel condemned the incident as “another case of mob lynching” and accused police of pressuring the family to conduct last rites before all suspects were caught. Human rights groups called it a “complete breakdown of law and order.”
On Monday evening, residents staged a sit-in at Jamner police station, prompting Jalgaon Superintendent of Police Maheshwar Reddy to meet protesters. He confirmed that four arrests have been made, with five suspects still at large, and linked the case to an “inter-community relationship.” Additional forces from the crime branch and Nashik Range have been deployed.
The FIR includes charges of murder, kidnapping, rioting, and unlawful assembly under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
